Friday, March 27, 2009

Turn Off Your Lights! ;)

And so I have finally fallen sick...

The unpredictable "Kate Perry" weather here in KK has finally got me...




Anyway Today at 8:30pm we will be experiencing Earth Hour...






In what started out by the Australians two years ago has now infected everyone else in the world.



(The City of Canberra, Australia)

So what is "Earth Hour"?

Earth Hour is an international event organised by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund), and held on the last Saturday of March each year, which asks households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. Earth hour was conceived by WWF Australia and the Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights.[1] Following Sydney's lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008. [2][3]

Earth Hour will next take place on Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 8:30 pm, local time.

- From Wikipedia.

This year, certain areas like the CUBE restaurant & even the Waterfront will be experiencing the Earth Hour by turning off their lights for 1 hour too.





Even National Geography will suspend all programme for 1 hour for Earth Hour.

At 81lions, we too will turn off our lights...

We will switch off all lights at home...





We will turn off the monitor lights while blogging...




We will switch off all lights from our handphone...



We will switch off all lights while driving too... XD








This year the theme of Earth Hour is "Vote for Earth" by switching off your lights. To help save the earth in "every little difference ", I say we should follow this cause. :)




We can see especially these couple of days in KK, how the crazy weather has shown us that the environment & global warming is as REAL AS IT GETS... Im not a very "green" person, but I do believe in doing what small part on my part if I can. So let's VOTE for earth...

Switch off your lights for ust 1 hour during Earth Hour. :)

(To learn how switching your lights out for even 1 hour can make a diffrence? Read under "Energy Saved".)

1 comments:

Nex said...

Its not jujst lights right? Its also all 'non-essential electrical appliances', which include TV, iPod, handphone/PDA, PC/Notebook, stereo/radio,etc...

I think those of us in Sabah no need lah, we already observe a lot more then one hour of TOTAL POWER CUT every year...we've been observing Earth Hour every week/month since before independence..